Daren (Taitung)

	Daren ; 達仁鄉
	; Location Darens in Taitung County
State :	Republic of China (Taiwan)
County :	Taitung
Coordinates :	22 ° 21 ' N , 120 ° 50' E Coordinates: 22 ° 21 '9 " N , 120 ° 49' 30" E
Area :	306.4454 km²
Residents :	3,568 (March 2018)
Population density :	12 inhabitants per km²
Time zone :	UTC + 8 (Chungyuan time)
Telephone code :	(+886) (0) 89
Postal code :	966
ISO 3166-2 :	TW-TTT
Community type :	Rural community (鄉, Xiāng )
Structure :	6 villages (村, Cūn )
Mayor :	Wang Guangqing (王光清)
Website :	www.ttdaren.gov.tw
	Daren
	Daren

Daren ( Chinese 達仁鄉 , Pinyin Daren Xiang , W.-G. Ta ² -Jen ² Hsiang ¹ ) is a rural community in Taitung County on Taiwan ( Republic of China ).

Location, geography and climate

Daren is located on the southern tip of Taitung County and borders on neighboring Pingtung County . The adjacent communities are (clockwise from north): Jinfeng , Taimali , Dawu (all in Taitung County) and Mudan , Shizi, and Chunri (the latter all in Pingtung County). The maximum longitudinal extent (in north-northwest direction) of the municipality is about 32 kilometers and the east-west extent varies between about 6 and 18.5 kilometers. In the southern section, the community has about 4.8 kilometers of Pacific coast. Almost the entire municipality is located in the Taiwanese Central Mountains , which here come close to the coast.

population

Daren has about 3500 inhabitants. With a population density of 12 people per km², it is one of the most sparsely populated regions on the entire island of Taiwan. At the end of 2017, according to official statistics, 3276 people, i.e. more than 90% of the population, belonged to the indigenous population . Most of them were Paiwan . The languages spoken here were in 2010 (multiple answers possible, people over 5 years of age): Mandarin 97.3%, Formosa languages 80.4%, Taiwanese 11.7%, Hakka 0.3%, others 3.2%.

Outline of Daren
Tjuamanges 台坂村 Tjuluqalju 土坂村 Kuvareng 新化村 Aljungic 安朔村 Tjarilik 森永村 Ljupetje 南田村

Administrative division

Daren is divided into 6 villages (names in Paiwan language, Chinese script and transcription): Tjuamanges / Tjuaqau / Tjuavanaq ( Chinese 台坂村 , Taichung), Tjuluqalju / Cuwabar ( 土坂村 , Tuban), Kuvareng ( 新化村 , Xinhua) , Aljungic ( 安朔村 , Anshuo), Tjarilik / Morinaga ( 森永村 , Senyong) and Ljupetje ( 南田村 , Nantian).

economy

The main line of business is agriculture. Local products are coffee , olives , herbs, mushrooms and adzuki beans .

Infrastructure

In the southern section (Aljungic / Anshuo) Daren is crossed by the southern connecting line ( 南迴線 ) of the Taiwanese railway, which connects the city of Taitung with the municipality of Fangliao in the district of Pingtung. There is no regular train stop in Daren. The Central Tunnel ( 中央隧道 ) is located on the border with neighboring Pingtung County . At 8,070 meters, it is Taiwan's second-longest railway tunnel. Provincial road 9 runs further south and east of the railway line (through Aljungic / Anshuo and Tjarilik / Senyong).

The community of Daren was temporarily under discussion as one of two possible locations for an interim storage facility for low-level radioactive waste.

tourism

The community has hardly been developed for tourism so far. In addition to nature, the folk culture of the Paiwan, which is expressed in numerous festivals, is worth seeing.